I find that a lot of my client’s problems are a result of their inability to balance their sense of “what they need” with “what they want”. It’s hard to distinguish between those two things, especially if you are susceptible to the regular drip-feed of marketing and advertising that we are exposed to throughout our waking hours.

Just walking through your part of town, you’ll come across billboards next to the roads and at bus stops, enticing images in every shop window and on flyers. TV and radio shows are regularly interrupted by advertisements that have nothing whatsoever to do with the content of the show, you’ll be exposed to constant popups and hidden advertorials on your social media.

Decluttering a home can be hard work. This not only means hard physical work, shifting boxes or sifting through a lot of small and large items, but it can also turn into devastatingly difficult emotional work on occasion.

One of the reasons for accumulating clutter and having a hard time with letting go of any of it is the emotional value we assign to items in our possession. This is a typical element in all decluttering, but especially so the older my clients are. Of course: they had a lot more time to experience important moments.